Documenting the campaigns to keep open Grisedale Croft and to secure the future of community healthcare on Alston Moor.
Updates on the campaign to keep open Grisedale Croft, the wider future of community health on Alston Moor, and the work of Alston Moor Parish Council on both.
Westmorland and Furness Council (WFC) has extended its consultation on the future of Grisedale Croft Care Home by two weeks, to 19 August, and has corrected the information it gave the public.
Read more →We have brought the case for keeping Grisedale Croft open into one place — the documents the NHS and Cumberland Council have now disclosed, and the Working Group's letters to the Council.
Read more →The NHS has disclosed the documents behind the 2017–18 settlement, confirming in its own words the commitment to provide step-down beds at Grisedale Croft. This page gathers the Working Group's correspondence with the Council, including the letters of 22 May and 11 June 2026.
Read more →Freedom of information responses obtained by the Grisedale Croft Working Group confirm the home's role as NHS-funded step-down provision for Alston Moor — and reveal why those beds have stood largely unused.
Read more →We are pleased to share that Westmorland and Furness Council (WFC) has confirmed to Alston Moor Parish Council that, after listening to the feedback from its drop-in sessions, it will hold a public meeting on the future of Grisedale Croft Care Home in Alston.
Read more →A packed drop-in, a clear no, and officers who would not address the room together — here's what happened at Grisedale Croft, and how to add your voice.
Read more →Alston Moor Parish Council — Grisedale Croft Working Group, 14 May 2026 Westmorland and Furness Council has today published its consultation on the future of Grisedale Croft Care Home.
Read more →Many of you have been asking when the formal consultation on the future of Grisedale Croft will open. Here is what we know so far.
Read more →Westmorland and Furness Council's twelve-week public consultation on the future of Grisedale Croft is expected to open today. The Parish Council's response is being prepared with the Working Group.
Read more →At an emergency meeting on 28 April, Alston Moor Parish Council unanimously adopted fourteen resolutions formally setting out its position on the future of Grisedale Croft.
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